All characters are eighteen or over.
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Trisha had started with B&G Manufacturing while she was a senior in high school working part time. Once she graduated to went full time. In school she had taken business classes and now that she was working at B&G she planned to move off the production floor and into management.
However as time passed she realized that it might be more difficult that she had expected. The company usually hired members of management from outside sources. Only a few people had made the transition from production to management.
But just because it was difficult didn't mean she couldn't make. The first step would be getting noticed by someone already in management and one of the ways to do that was to help out at the annual fashion show the company held just before the start of the Christmas buying season.
She overslept and when she arrived the preparations were already in progress. As it happened the stage manager spotting her just after she arrived and mistakenly assumed she was the replacement model for a girl that had arrived drunk and unable to model.
It wasn't surprising that the manager thought Trisha was a model. She had good looks and a nice body. The manager grabbed Trisha's arm and lead her over to one of the make-up booths. When Trisha tried to protest the manager told her to shut up and sit still.
It kind of pissed Trisha off so she complied. If they wanted to waste time applying make-up to someone who was just there to help out then it was their problem.
When the make-up artist finished Trisha was impressed with the job he had done. He took her over to get her hair done. When the hair dresser was done Trisha was amazed. It was almost another girl looking back out of the mirror.
The stage manager arrived about then and pulled her over to racks of dresses. Glancing at Trisha and sorting through the dresses she put one out and handed it over.
Trisha thought this had gone far enough. She explained that she worked at B&G and had only come here to help out.
The manager was annoyed that time had been wasted, but looking at Trisha realized the girl had the potential to be a model. She replied that since they were a model short and Trisha was ready the best way she could help was to model.
Trisha started to decline, but realized that there were be a large number of management in the audience and if she made a good impression it could only help her on her quest to join them.
That's when she agreed to model.
The manager told her to get changed and get in behind the other models waiting to go on stage. Looking around Trisha didn't see any changing rooms and asked about it. The manager told her that since space was so limited she would have to change wherever she could find room. Part of modeling was to do what it took to be ready to go out front.
Despite the lack of privacy Trisha had given her word so she looked around until she spotted a space between two of the auditorium's hanging drapes. It open at the end, but at least if afforded a little concealment.
As she stepped into the space she pulled a chair in with her. Looking around and see no one was paying attention to her, she quickly pulled her t-shirt over her head making sure she didn't mess up her new hairstyle and make-up.
A quick glance around showed no one had spotted her and she tossed the shirt on the chair. Next she pulled the dress over her head and when she was concealed again, reached under the dress and unfastened her jeans.
It was a little difficult to get them off while wearing the dress, but she managed.
She stepped over to a nearby mirror and quickly spotted a problem. The way the top of the dress was designed her brasserie was visible. There was no way she was going to be able to wear her bra with this dress.
Stepping back into her makeshift dressing room she checked to see if anyone was looking and no one was. She pulled the dress back off and after another look around, reached up behind her back and unsnapped her bra. In a hurry to get back into the dress she let it fall to the ground and grabbed the dress.
That's when she heard someone clear their throat. Looking up she saw that Jacob, who worked next to her on the production line, had come around the end of the drapes and now was standing there staring at her exposed boobs.
She grabbed the dress and held it up in front of her. When he started to speak she shifted her grip and held one finger in front of her lips in the universal sign for silence.
She motioned for him to go away, but he just grinned and shook her head. Now what was she to do? If she made a scene other people she worked with would find her in this state of undress and no doubt all of them would gather around. If she didn't make a scene it was obvious he intended to stay there and get another look at her chest puppies when she pulled the dress on over her head. If she didn't get a move on the stage manager would be back for her and she wouldn't be ready. There was no telling what might happen in that case.
Better to let one see, she decided, then a whole bunch. Besides Jacob had already seen her bare chest. It wasn't like he hadn't. So she pulled the dress up over her head and slipped into it.
When she finished Jacob was standing there grinning like some kind of demented baboon. She pointed to him and then put her finger in front of her lips signaling that he better not tell anyone. She was relieved when he used his finger to cross his heart indicating he would keep her secret.
She wondered how long that promise would be good for, but there wasn't anything she could do about it now.
Just then the stage manager arrived and lead Trisha away. She took her over to the line of models. Trisha repeated that she wasn't really a model and didn't know what to do. The manager told her to watch the other girls and do what they did. She did warned her that models weren't supposed to look at the members of the audience since that would take their attention off the clothes.
When it was her turn Trisha walked out mimicking the girl walking down the catwalk in front of her.
It was a surreal moment. It seemed like time had stopped and was simultaneously was flashing by. It seemed to take forever to get to the end of the stage and suddenly she was there. Despite all this she did a good job of acting like the other models and soon was back stage.
The manager met her and walked her back over to the racks of dresses.
She pulled out another one and handed it to Trisha. Then she and Trisha returned to Trisha's spot between the drapes. Trisha was relieved to see Jacob wasn't standing there.
Before he came back she wanted to make the switch. She pulled the first dress back over her head, but was careful to let it hang down in front of her before letting the bottom edge raise above her breasts.
When she could see again she looked around and seeing no one looking tossed the dress over the back of the chair she had drug in earlier. The manager handed her the other dress and walked off with the first one.
No sooner had she stepped away then Jacob poked his head around the end of the drape on her right. Once again she was standing there bare-breasted in front of her co-worker. She thought, screw it he's already seen my honkers twice.
And to be truthful it was a little exciting for her to let him see her ta-tas, especially since anyone else could walk around the corner at any moment.
Nonetheless she wasn't going to take a chance with anyone else coming by so she quickly stepped into the dress and pulled it up.
When she stepped in front of the mirror this time she noted that if she hadn't been able to wear a bra in the other one there was no way she ever could have wear one in this dress.
It started out a a fairly modest, normal ankle length dress with sleeves that came down to the middle of her upper arms. But from there it appeared that the designer had taken a pair of scissors and cut down from a point halfway between her shoulders and neck almost all the way to the waist in a tampering V on both the front and back sides. The only thing that kept the dress in place was the weight of the dress pulling down on the shoulder strips.
She bounced a couple of times to see if the dress would stay up and it did. She thought the designer must have done some serious studies to get just the right factors to prevent a mishap.
Nevertheless she was careful as she made her way over to the line of models. When it was her turn she stepped out through the curtain.
When she stepped out she also had to step up onto the catwalk. Her slight lean forward as she stepped changed the weight dynamics of the dress. Instead of the weight of the dress pulling straight down it swung forward. This relieved some of the pressure holding the sleeves in place and they slipped just a little bit.
Trisha stepped forward in her version of a model's walk. Her gait was somewhat bolder then the usual model walk and that set the dress to swinging. It wasn't anything you would notice, but it changed how the dress was designed to be worn.
Each swing allowed the shoulders to slip a little further off Trisha's shoulders. By the time she got to the end of the catwalk the dress was approaching the point of no return.
She reached the end of the catwalk and swung around for her return trip and bang.
The shoulder pieces couldn't maintain their positions and she was suddenly standing there essentially topless in front of the whole audience. Every senior member of management was treated to the sight of a beautiful, full set of naked titties on display.
It only took Trisha a moment to realized what had happened and pull the dress back up, but it was a moment no one in the audience would ever forget.
She was in a panic. Fortunately the model behind her had seen what happened and stepped up. She put an arm around Trisha's waist and whispered to follow her lead.
Trisha didn't know what else to do so she did as she had been instructed. She put her arm around the other model's waist and the two of them sashayed back down the catwalk.
When they got back stage the stage manager was waiting. She thanked the other model and led Trisha away from everyone else.
The manager told her that she had done a magnificent job of staying in control. She went on to say that most models would have run screaming off the catwalk.
Then she said that she would understand if Trisha didn't want to go on, but she said she hoped Trisha would. To Trisha's stunned look of surprise the manager told her that if she quit now everyone in the audience, including the people she worked with would believe that she had panicked and run away. If however she went back on stage she would prove that she could handle a crisis without quitting. She continued that while some people she know might tease her later, it would be a whole lot worst if she didn't face up to the situation.
Trisha was amazed. This woman had put everything into clear perspective. No matter what she did, those people out front had seen her bare-boobed. Nothing could change that. So she could either fall apart and her life would essentially come to a halt or she could step out.
Trisha looked at the manager and stated that she was going back out there and she needed the kind of dress that showed she wasn't afraid.